Seemingly Unrelated Interventions: Environmental Management Systems in the Workplace and Energy Saving Practices at Home

To reduce their environmental impacts, a growing number of organizations worldwide have implemented environmental management systems (EMSs). In these organizations, energy conservation activities become usual behaviors for employees; thus, we hypothesize that employees continue such energy saving be...

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Published in:Environmental & resource economics 2021-12, Vol.80 (4), p.761-794
Main Authors: Arimura, Toshi H., Iwata, Kazuyuki, Katayama, Hajime, Sakudo, Mari
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Electricity
Energy conservation
Environmental Economics
Environmental impact
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Environmental Management
Environmental management systems
Expenditures
Intervention
Organizations
Residential energy
Workplaces
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Summary:To reduce their environmental impacts, a growing number of organizations worldwide have implemented environmental management systems (EMSs). In these organizations, energy conservation activities become usual behaviors for employees; thus, we hypothesize that employees continue such energy saving behaviors at home. This hypothesis is supported by data from surveys of individuals in Japan. Specifically, we find that the probability of engaging in energy saving practices at home is higher and that expenditures on electricity use are lower for individuals who work in organizations that implement EMSs than for individuals who do not work in organizations with EMSs. Our results suggest that beyond the original purpose of helping organizations reduce their environmental impacts, EMSs work as an intervention to promote household energy saving.
ISSN:0924-6460
1573-1502
DOI:10.1007/s10640-021-00609-2